Word: brained
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...Allen's system. She realized there were many things she had forgotten to plan for, mostly because they hadn't required her immediate attention. The advantage of the GTD system, or others like it, Allen says, is that once you've written everything down and gotten it off your brain, your mind can relax and your imagination can soar...
...parsimony? U.S. officials argue that resettling Iraqis will accelerate the country's brain drain. Admitting large numbers of Arabs also raises anxieties among some Americans that terrorists could slip in--even though refugees are among the most exhaustively screened migrants. But Bush Administration critics say the biggest reason Washington has been slow to act is that doing so would be an admission of failure in Iraq. Says Harold Koh, dean of Yale Law School and former Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor: "If the U.S. government were to do an active resettlement regime for Iraqi refugees...
...most exciting findings in brain science is that different kinds of thoughts can be tied to different patterns of activity in the brain. A sidebar to my article "The Mysteries of Consciousness" [Jan. 29] showed colorful brain scans that revealed different hot spots when people saw a face and when they saw a place--and the same brain areas lit up when the people merely thought about faces and places. Unfortunately, my former colleagues who performed this important study, Kathleen O'Craven of the University of Toronto and Nancy Kanwisher of M.I.T., were not credited...
...CORRECTION: The March 1 news article "Test Your Brain for Bucks" incorrectly said that Eric P. C. Phelan ’07 holds a work-study position. In fact, he works a regular term-time...
...brother’s engagement. Everybody except my cousin’s toddlers knew why we got together on that hot afternoon. Two weeks later, we repeated the event, but this time without one of the guests.We all needed to say goodbye to Pops before he passed away from brain cancer.Pops didn’t want to draw attention to himself and the illness that had taken over his quick-witted, Jesuit-trained mind, though. So it was just an engagement party. He never wanted people to give him the luxury treatment. He hated that I had to drive...